Newshosting Review

Newshosting has been providing Usenet news for a long time. Over the past few years they have joined with several other Usenet providers, and also made great strides to improve their infra-structure and services, which has once again placed them in the upper ranks of NNTP service providers.

• Tier-1 Usenet provider operating the largest NNTP infrastructure in the world
• Recently doubled the redundancy of their North American and European server farms.
• Separate servers for top-tier subscribers
• days of binary retention
• They currently increase retention by 1-day, every day
• Very fast download speeds (no speed caps)
• Allow customers to buy multiple months in advance at a discounted rate
• 14-day or 30GB free trial

Newhosting currently offers the least expensive unlimited monthly account available. I highly recommend their Unlimited account for $9.99/month. For that low price you gain access to their top-tier account, and the only extras that you get with the most expensive account is access to a separate server (which claims to have the same retention), and a web-based reader.

All Newshosting plans, including the $9.99/month special, come with the Newshosting newsreader. This is a powerful streamlined interface that supports:

• Integrated file search
• File previews + automatic thumbnails
• Text and binary newsgroup support
• Posting to text groups directly
• Sorting groups by file type (image, audio, etc)
• Auto-unrar + auto-par